B.F.'s Daughter

Park Avenue, 1932, breakfasting with his wife (Spring Byington), industrialist B.F. Fulton (Charles Coburn) fumes over a radio commentator’s criticism as daughter Polly (Barbara Stanwyck) appears, sniffing a chance to help her fiancé (Richard Hart), opening MGM’s B.F.’s Daughter, 1948.

Polly (Barbara Stanwyck, title character) and her industrialist dad (Charles Coburn), have just fondly dismissed her long-time beau because she’s announced plans to marry Tom (Van Heflin), the liberal academic she met the previous day, who’s waiting in the lobby, in B.F.’s Daughter, 1948.

At a Manhattan speakeasy Polly (Barbara Stanwyck, title character) joins Apples (Margaret Lindsay) and together they’re engaged by scruffy Tom (Van Heflin, his first scene), proceeding with little mention of her fiance and none of her corporate magnate dad, early in B.F.’s Daughter, 1948.